Fast and Affordable Mitakon Creator Primes Now Available for E-MountCinema5D (3 days ago) - Lens manufacturer Zhongyi has expanded the Mitakon Creator line-up, with the 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/2 now available for Sony E-mount. Zhongyi Optics is a lens manufacturer out of China that specialises in affordable fast glass and lens adapters under the Mitakon banner, which includes the Speedmaster series of primes...

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This is the real “Nikon official D850 lens recommendation list”Nikonrumors (4 days ago) - Several websites, including dpreview, published a "Nikon official D850 lens recommendation list" which has nothing to do with Nikon's official recommendation. It seems that the list was made up based on nothing but thin air. I have already covered here on the blog Thom Hogan's recommended list of lenses...

New Nikon autumn cashback promotion in the UKNikonrumors (5 days ago) - Nikon UK launched a new autumn cashback promotion. Check the pricing and availability at Park Cameras, WEX, Jessops and Amazon UK. Here are the details: Additional information can be found here and here. Related posts: Up to £180 cashback when you buy a Nikon D4/D800/D800E and a FX lens in the...

Nikon’s patent for split pixel patterns and on-sensor PDAFNikonrumors (5 days ago) - Nikon filed a patent in Japan for split pixel patterns and electrical circuit design for cross on-sensor PDAF (the split pixel might be for the green color). The patent describes two read-out circuits, one for PDAF and another for images from the split pixel. Additional information is available here. Related posts: New...

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Dpreview published their Nikon D850 autofocus test resultsNikonrumors (5 days ago) - Nikon D850 MultiCAM AF sensor module Dpreview published their Nikon D850 autofocus test results. Their conclusion: "Appropriately for a highly capable camera, the D850 comes with a highly capable autofocus system. In single-point Single AF and Continuous AF, as well as in its Dynamic area settings, accuracy, hit rate and...

Weekly Nikon news flash #439Nikonrumors (Sunday, 8 October) - → KEH is running a 3-day Nikon sale where you can get 5% off cameras, 10% off lenses, 15% off accessories with coupon code NRUMORS10A (valid: October 9 - 11). → The Nikon Manual Viewer app does not run under iOS 11. There is a new app - Nikon Manual Viewer 2. Using...

Nikon D850 review (sort of)Nikonrumors (Sunday, 8 October) - Nikon D850 and the new guitar problem by Christian Handl I had the chance to play with the new Nikon D850 very early (August 30th, 2017) and could also work with RAW files thanks to Raw Therapee. To make it short, the file quality is very good, nothing to complain...